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Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php

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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 5/25/2013 6:39 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2013 15:57:14 -0600, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>>>> I have been slowly building a Php/MySQL based IMAP email client.  The
>>>> Php IMAP functions are well documented and easy to use.  I store
>>>> messages in a MySQL database (attachments in the file system) for
>>>> ease of organization, maintenance, backup and searching.  I like it
>>>> enough that I want to add my existing archive of email in
>>>> Thunderbird.  To do so, I need to parse mbox files and extract
>>>> message headers, parts, and attachments.  Thankfully, the Php IMAP
>>>> functions can be used to open and parse an mbox file (or even a
>>>> single .eml file) as well as opening a stream to the server.
>>>>
>>>> Using this functionality I can write a script to run on my WAMP
>>>> development machine that reads the Thunderbird folder structure,
>>>> parses the mbox files and saves individual messages along with their
>>>> folder/subfolder path in the Thunderbird folder hierarchy.  It should
>>>> be as easy as pointing it to the top of the folder structure and
>>>> letting it do all the work from there.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, it appears that the Windows Php binary is unable to
>>>> connect to an mbox file, so to make my job easy, I would have to
>>>> upload the entire folder structure (it is about 200MBs) to my shared
>>>> host and process it there.  I would much rather "toy around" with
>>>> this process on my Windows development machine and not on the shared
>>>> host.
>>>>
>>>> There is a Php bug filed for this, but it was determined that the
>>>> "underlying c-client function is unable to open a file."
>>>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39880 - closed as "not a bug."
>>>>
>>>> $mbox = imap_open('pathto/mboxfile', '', '') // works on *nix, but
>>>> not on Windows.
>>>>  - Notice: Unknown: Can't open mailbox mboxfiles/Inbox: no such
>>>> mailbox (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0.
>>>>    (This second error is the one coming from the underlying c-client
>>>> function.)
>>>
>>> Okay, step one: quit munging stuff around and give us the EXACT code,
>>> the EXACT contents of variables involved, and the EXACT error messages.
>>> You're not revealing national secrets by posting paths to filenames, and
>>> what the problem is may be in what you're changing to be more general.
>>
>> I used generic paths and filenames because I had tried several
>> variations.
>>
>> I have learned that imap_open only works on a file - on a *nix web
>> server - if the path to the mbox file is relative to $HOME. I have not
>> found any official documentation, just forum posts saying so, and ... it
>> is the only way I have been able to make it work.
>>
>> So, imap_open works for me (on the remote Linux host) if, and only if, I
>> use:
>> imap_open ('public_html/mboxfiles/Trash', '', '')
>> // Trash is an mbox file I uploaded directly from my Thunderbird Profile
>>
>> On Windows
>> c:/localhost is the document root
>> c:/localhost/imap is where the Php scripts are located.
>> c:/localhost/imap/mboxfiles is where the mbox file "Trash" is located
>>
>> I have tried:
>> imap_open('localhost/imap/mboxfiles/Trash', '', ''); // equivalent of
>> being relative to $HOME on *nix
>> imap_open('/imap/mboxfiles/Trash', '', ''); // absolute path from
>> document root
>> imap_open('mboxfiles/Trash', '', ''); // relative path
>> imap_open('c:/localhost/imap/mboxfiles/Trash', '', ''); // real path on
>> disk
>>
>> On Windows I always get these two errors (the file path changes
>> accordingly):
>>
>> - Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream
>> localhost/utilities/imap/eml/Trash in
>> localhost\utilities\imap\imap_save_mbox_file.php on line 127
>>
>> - Notice: Unknown: Can't open mailbox
>> localhost/utilities/imap/eml/Trash: no such mailbox (errflg=2) in
>> Unknown on line 0
>>
>> I have read that the second error is coming from the c-client (errflg=2
>> comes from there).
>>
> 
> I don't see any of the code you listed listing the directories
> imap_open() is looking in.

There seems to be a misunderstanding.  Chuck is not trying to open an
IMAP stream to a mail *server*, but instead to an mbox *file*.
Apparently this works on Linux, but not on Windows.  According to
<https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39880> this seems to be a problem of
the c-client library on Windows.

> Once again (and for the LAST TIME):
> 
> What is the *EXACT CODE* you are using.  And what is the *EXACT MESSAGE*
> you get in response?
> 
> We can't help you if you give incomplete/confusing/incorrect information!

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 15:57 -0600
  Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 00:40 +0200
    Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 21:17 -0600
    Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-25 09:30 +0200
      Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 16:19 +0200
        Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-25 17:19 +0200
          Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 17:48 +0200
            Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-25 20:09 +0200
  Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-24 19:16 -0400
    Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 17:40 -0600
    Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-05-25 10:50 -0500
  Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-05-25 18:08 +0200
  Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-05-25 11:14 -0500
    Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-25 16:39 -0600
      Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-26 23:11 -0400
        Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-27 14:13 +0200
          Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 08:49 -0400
            Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-27 15:25 +0200
              Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 10:01 -0400
                Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-27 18:08 +0200
                Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 19:05 -0400
                Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-28 01:42 +0200
                Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-27 19:50 -0400
                Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-29 00:17 +0200
        Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-27 17:51 -0600
          Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php (correction - ignore previous) Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-27 18:20 -0600
      Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-05-27 10:22 -0500
        Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-27 21:15 -0600
          Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-28 12:23 -0400
            Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Chuck Anderson <cycletourist@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-28 17:56 -0600
              Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-05-28 22:27 -0400
              Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-29 15:23 +0200
          Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-29 00:08 +0200

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